True Love to Christ
“The
LORD
hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea,
I have loved thee with an ever-lasting love: therefore with
lovingkindness have I drawn thee.”
-JEREMIAH
31:3 [KJV]
The Lord Jesus possesses all kinds of lovelinesses compacted into one perfect loveliness! all perfections blended to make one perfection! every sweet concocted and distilled to make one perfect sweetness!
Oh, how one longs for but a moment’s sight of Christ in glory! One might be content to have only a dry crust, and to lie in an underground dungeon for the rest of one's life, if one might but gaze on His blessed face for once, and hear Him say, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.”
Those who truly love the Savior wish to know all that can be known about Him.
True love likes to become familiar with the object of its affection; its heart is set upon that object, it studies it, and can never know it too well or too closely.
True love to Christ thinks of Him from morning till night; it is glad to be released from other thoughts that it may follow only its one darling pursuit.
True love to Christ seeks to get to Him, to live with Him, to live upon Him, and thus to know Him so intimately that things which were unobserved and passed over at the first, stand out in clear light to the increased joy and delight of the contemplative mind.
If you have but a ‘spark’ of love for Jesus in your heart, Jesus has a ‘furnace’ of love for you in His heart!
The Lord Jesus possesses all kinds of lovelinesses compacted into one perfect loveliness! all perfections blended to make one perfection! every sweet concocted and distilled to make one perfect sweetness!
Oh, how one longs for but a moment’s sight of Christ in glory! One might be content to have only a dry crust, and to lie in an underground dungeon for the rest of one's life, if one might but gaze on His blessed face for once, and hear Him say, “I have loved thee with an everlasting love.”
Those who truly love the Savior wish to know all that can be known about Him.
True love likes to become familiar with the object of its affection; its heart is set upon that object, it studies it, and can never know it too well or too closely.
True love to Christ thinks of Him from morning till night; it is glad to be released from other thoughts that it may follow only its one darling pursuit.
True love to Christ seeks to get to Him, to live with Him, to live upon Him, and thus to know Him so intimately that things which were unobserved and passed over at the first, stand out in clear light to the increased joy and delight of the contemplative mind.
If you have but a ‘spark’ of love for Jesus in your heart, Jesus has a ‘furnace’ of love for you in His heart!
-Gospel report by preacher C.H. Spurgeon
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